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The Administration Building, Decatur Baptist College, at 1602 S. Trinity St. in
Decatur, Texas Decatur is the county seat of Wise County, Texas, United States. Its population was 6,538 in 2020. History Wise County was established in 1856, and Taylorsville (in honor of Zachary Taylor) was made the county seat. Absalom Bishop, an early s ...
, and overlooking the town, was built in 1893. It was listed on the
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in 1971. The building was destroyed in a fire on March 18, 2023. It was a historic building of the Decatur Baptist College, which was founded in 1891 and which held classes during 1892–93 in an opera house space above a grocery store in Decatur. After the building was completed in 1893, it had 149 enrolled students and eight faculty in the 1893–94 school year. The college went bankrupt in 1896, and reorganized as Decatur Baptist Junior College, the first private junior college in the U.S. Much later it moved to Dallas in 1964 and became Dallas Baptist College. It was a three-story
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building. It included 15 rooms and a chapel. On March 18, 2023, the building, which houses the Wise County Heritage Museum, was completely destroyed in a blaze shortly after midnight along with many artifacts being lost.


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* Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Wise County


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* University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas School buildings completed in 1893 Wise County, Texas National Register of Historic Places in Wise County, Texas Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks {{WiseCountyTX-NRHP-stub